Ep355: East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys

East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys discusses the 2022 remix of "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables", the challenges, the master tapes, the materials, old school fans of the band and more.

Topics include:

• Grammar questions for Dead Kennedys
• The humour of Dead Kennedys
• The 2022 remix of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
• Instrument separation in 2022 remix
• Chris Lord-Alge’s involvement in new remix
• Obtaining a vinyl copy of the new remix
• A/Bing the 1980 mix to the 2022 remix
• The status of Dead Kennedys master tapes
• Aborting the “In God We Trust” initial recordings due to a bad audio tape
• Challenges in compiling the 2022 mix
• Multiple vocal performances from the original multitrack tapes
• Speed variations from master tapes
• Origin of the title of Fresh Fruit album
• Various sequences of the album
• The importance of live sequencing
• What’s in Ray’s record collection?
• The collectability of Dead Kennedys releases
• The story of the lopped off heads on back cover
• Replacing the goth lettering from the Fresh Fruit cover
• The story & ownership of the DK logo
• The poster from Fresh Fruit
• The CD and vinyl booklet from the 2022 mix
• Attempting to identify all photo credits
• Famous fans of Dead Kennedys
• Thoughts of further remixes for other Dead Kennedys recordings
• The story of Polydor trying to sign Dead Kennedys
• Modern touring of old school punkbands
• Offspring & Dave Grohl memories of Dead Kennedys shows
• Update on The Killer Smiles – vinyl version
• Interview wrap up

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